The unique properties and practical utility of carbon-based materials have transformed the
modern scientific fields of electrical energy storage (EES), environmental science, and …

Carbon aerogels (CAs) are desirable for thermal protection in aerospace because of their
lightweight and high‐temperature insulation characteristic; however, their intrinsic brittleness …

Heating and cooling represent a significant portion of overall energy consumption of our
society. Due to the diffusive nature of thermal energy, thermal insulation is critical for energy …

The solutions of Maxwell and Rayleigh were the first of many attempts to determine the
eective thermal conductivityof heterogeneous material. Early models assumed that no …

With the rapid increase of energy demand in people's daily life and the depletion of fossil
fuel reserves, research on new environment-friendly energy sources and their practical …

This paper summarized the development of the effective thermal conductivity models for the
nanoporous silica aerogel insulation material. Firstly, the nanoscale heat transfer …

In the past few decades, significant efforts have been made to improve the theoretical
understanding of thermal transport mechanisms in thermal insulation materials and push the …

As a new generation of thermal insulation materials, the effective thermal conductivity of
aerogel and its composites is extremely low. The nanoporous structure of aerogels …

Thermal transport in nano-porous insulation material of aerogel has recently attracted
increasing attention due to its extreme low thermal conductivity and the broad applications …

Due to the extremely high porosity and extremely low density of nano-porous thermal
insulation materials, the characteristic size of the pores inside the materials and the …